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Peering Into The Cloud With Ostrato: Growth, Pain Points And Opportunity

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Technology can definitely help with these problems, but enterprises must also implement proper policies and procedures. The policies are used to set the boundaries for the enterprises’ cloud operations, while the procedures provide the required steps for proper cloud operations. In today’s environments, if an enterprise does not implement a policy prohibiting users from bypassing their systems and going directly to a cloud service provider, then IT will never be able to ensure corporate governance and cost controls across these disparate environments.

Enterprises must implement these policy’s to ensure all users leverage their approved systems to consume cloud services, and enforce a policy that individual user bills for cloud environments would not be paid. The coordinated use of new technology, with updated policies and procedures, would ensure a company’s success with leveraging cloud technologies.

How are you addressing them?

In order to effectively leverage the many choices in cloud services and eliminate the growing pains, organizations need a solution that streamlines cloud adoption and reduces the inherent financial and security risks associated with multi-cloud environments. Ostrato cloudSM™ is a cloud management platform that delivers breakthrough governance and management capabilities to the Enterprise. By brokering on- and off-premise cloud services through an integrated platform, cloudSM™ empowers end-users and provides IT with the visibility and control required to advance and achieve business objectives.

Ostrato cloudSM™ is a purpose built enterprise grade cloud management platform that provides single-pane visibility, centralized control, and reporting across a variety of cloud services. By integrating third-party, internal, and hybrid cloud services into a single platform, Ostrato helps companies streamline and speed cloud adoption and ensure that the cloud is utilized to the best advantage in terms of cost, performance, and functionality.

How do you see the Cloud evolving over the next several years?

While predictions are always a gamble, we see cloud and cloud management very similar to the late 90’s and early 2000’s, when there was a rapid proliferation of new network types, services and applications being provided by ASP’s, MSP’s and traditional CSP’s (Communication Service Providers) and the corresponding industry consolidation. We believe this has morphed into DaaS, IaaS, PaaS, or XaaS and these capabilities need to provide elasticity, rapid innovation and costs savings to an Enterprise.

Enterprises have outsourced their networks for years, why not their infrastructure? The IT infrastructure is there to support the applications or services used to run a business and generate revenue, and if an organization can be more efficient by doing that off-premise, assuming you have the needed visibility and control to govern this process, than this fundamental rethink of the IT stack should continue full speed ahead – move the compute to data and not the data to the compute.

One reality that has been confirmed during the last six months is that the on-premise or private cloud is not going away anytime soon, so the hybrid world is reality. It’s very exciting to be a part of helping Enterprises adopt cloud services and solve their complexities, and enable orchestration and automation across this hybrid environment – we are long on cloud.